Discovering git branch from python script

Question

I have a python script. I need to access the name of the git branch from which I'm running the python script, through python, during runtime. Is there a way to do this?

Edit: os.system("git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD") outputs to the cli, I don't see how I would get access to it from python...

I would like to have sth like git_branch = <python commands>

What about using [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4256107/running-bash-commands-in-python) with the `git branch` command? — Aristotelis V, Sep 14 '22 at 11:09
Does this answer your question? [How to get the current checked out Git branch name through pygit2?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26134026/how-to-get-the-current-checked-out-git-branch-name-through-pygit2) — Yevhen Kuzmovych, Sep 14 '22 at 11:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 14 '22 at 11:31

You could use GitPython, something like the following:

>>> import git
>>> import os
>>> git_branch = git.Repo(os.getcwd()).active_branch.name
>>> git_branch
'master'

Otherwise, as already pointed out by Yevhen Kuzmovych in the comments, you could use PyGit.

Discovering git branch from python script

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